Telegraphic Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1014, 16 January 1869, Page 2

Telegraphic Intelligence.

[From the " Wellington Independent," Deo. 12.]

Melbourne via Dunedin, t Monday, Dec. 11. The s.s. Omeo arrived at the Bluff early this morning from Melbourne. The Victorian Derby was won by Mydram ; the Port Phillip Stakes by Barb, Glencoe second. On the sth January, M'Meckan, Blackwood & Co. bought the Tararua, Rangitoto, and Claud Hamilton. The Governor of Tasmania is now in Melbourne, and with the Governor of Victoria visited the Theatre Royal last night. The house was crammed. The weather is very hot and dry ; but the crops are a good average yield. Nine vessels are chartered, and others wanted to load wheat at Adelaide for London. Sergeant Cleary has arrested Rutherford, the bushrangei', after a desperate fight. Cleary shot Rutherford's horse, and then dismounted and chased him two days on foot through the bush. Captain Ferguson has been appointed to the command of the s.s. Tararua, and Capt. Hagley of the Rangitoto. The Captain of the Claud Hamilton has not yet been appointed. The Otago sails for Japan. The Tararua leaves Melbourne on the 15th for the Bluff, and the Gothenburg on the 27th for New Zealand ports. The Tararua is being overhauled. The Mataura proceeds to London via Wellington and the Straits of Magellan, and not via Melbourne, as previously advertised. The market quotations are flour, £12 10s ; fine wheat, ss ; oats, in better favor, a parcel of 8000 bushels brought 3s 8d ; bags, Is ; cornsacks, in trade parcels, worth 16s; sugars, firm at the advance recently established.

Sydney, January 4. Panama mail service is considered finally stopped, as the New South Wales Government has accepted the surrender of the Contract. Mr. Duncan, the late Collector of Customs, who was dismissed by the former Ministry and reinstated by the present one, will be allowed to retire at once on a full pension. The Government will bring clown a bill to-morrow to provide for him, which will probably meet with muck opposition. Dunedin, Monday, Dec. 11. The Otago Arts Exhibition will positively open on the Ist proximo.

[EKOM A PEIVATE CORRESPONDENT.]